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Taste and Cultural Capital

Honda will win; the next Lexus; and so on. There is always an ongoing battle, and an ongoing desire for new tastes to feed....

Welfare Consumerism and Family Authority

active in the workplace and as such have more authority as a result of this economic freedom. There is also the increased...

Capitalism in the United States

Such action will surely prove destabilizing. American capitalism impacts consumerism and materialism in another way, by lulling A...

North America's Teenage Consumers

points out that an ideal engine, in optimum condition could theoretically conceive 100 percent efficiency, but that real-world req...

Analysis of TV Issues

uncommon side effect of televisions assault on the senses, found particularly evident with teenagers. Television is responsible f...

Public Policy and Marketing Ethics

both of which are legal and sold in large quantities (Kotler, 2004). (Illegal drugs are also in this category but as theyre not f...

Consumerism and Television for Children

endless parade of gorgeous people living fabulous lives; it is attractive and seductive, and that makes it an ideal platform for m...

Women's Emancipation and the Department Store's Impact

Paris runways are rather elitist and desirable, the models are near starvation and they represent a new female ideal. Fashion to ...

Consumerism Perspectives of Thomas Frank and Susan Strasser

the development and marketing of a product--Procter and Gambles Crisco, a solid vegetable shortening that went on the market in 19...

Reading Whybrow: America's Illness

Adam Smith and his ideas of economics. Smiths theory of economics "is firmly grounded in the biology of human behavior" (Whybrow)....

Consumerism and Art: Griffith Vs. Bozick

of the sets that are then used to produce the photos in Griffiths "Empire Projects". Griffith isnt the only artist whose wo...

Environmental Stewardship and Consumerism

their needs and desires without wrecking the environment? (Simms, 2008). The answer lies in the fact that there seems to be no c...

ELECTRONIC MEDIA, TRENDS AND SOCIAL IMPACT

relationship. Yet it is these social networking sites that are keeping people in touch with one another from a consumer poi...

Myth of the American Dream

In three pages this paper discusses how consumerism is propelled by the American Dream myth. Two sources are cited in the bibliog...

The Post Cold War Era and Cultural Imperialism in America

the rejection of modernization and consumerism coming from the West no matter where it occurs in the world. However, he is certain...

The Netherlands' Economy

In twenty three pages the Netherlands' economy is examined in an overview that includes its system of health care, unemployment ra...

Rational Decision Making and Consumerism

In eight pages relevant marketing and economic issues are considered within the context of consumerism and making rational choices...

Marketing and Competition Within The Managed Care Industry

This paper examines how economic issues such as supply and demand, consumerism, and competition affect marketing strategies for th...

American Consumerism and How It Evolved Since the First World War

In five pages this paper examines how US consumerism evolved between the First World War and the late 1940s. Four sources are cit...

Consumerism, Excess, and 'The Roaring Twenties'

The 1920s and the excesses associated with rampant consumerism are the focus of this paper consisting of seven pages. Five source...

Flaneur's Impressionist Gaze

In eight pages the gaze of the Flaneur Impressionists are considered within an urban setting and how it was not simply artistic bu...

Overview of Consumer Culture

Consumer culture is the focus of this overview of eight pages that examines it from the theoretical perspectives of Veblen Thorste...

Technology, Standards of Living, Economic Changes, and the 1920s

South who felt themselves to be in an alien environment. The mass press and available education acted as a stimulus to articulat...

Consumer Choices and Music

from "a philosophy encouraged by businesses through the advent of advertising that was to develop desires for new products regardl...

A Critical Essay on Don DeLillo's 'White Noise'

This essay consists of 5 pages and describes this text as definitive of the cultural voic that exists in a contemporary life ruled...

The Relationship Between the Economy and Bad Habits in America

In five pages this essay considers how the addiction of American consumerism is the 'bad' habit that keeps the economy growing. T...

Marketing's Sociocultural Environment

full detail the social-cultural environment as it pertains to marketing - as understanding this environment is important when it c...

Fictional Reflections of Contemporary China

this concept was combined with the idea that those with superior status would educate those who were lower in status through examp...

Analysis of Consumerism

leisure time activities (Glennie 927). This was true, interestingly enough, when later improvements in material wellbeing even fil...

Analysis of U.S. Consumerism in 'The Eagles Shadow'

In this way, I do not believe that the U.S. decision to not support the Kyoto Treaty is reflective of American consumerism run amo...